![]() ![]() Most recently there has been Ian McEwan's Atonement. Salman Rushdie's Shame and Fury, Peter Carey's Bliss, Anita Brookner's Providence and AS Byatt's Possession. He loses everything as a punishment for the affair and disgrace is his feeling that this is what he deserves.Ĭoetzee is not alone among practising novelists in announcing his works with one-word abstractions. ![]() ![]() He tries to accept "disgrace as my state of being". He is driven to a strange "ceremony" of self-abasement before the family of the girl he has forced himself on "he gets to his knees and touches his forehead to the floor". The would-be "servant of Eros" is a mere predator. Refusing to display the token penitence demanded by his university, Lurie comes to experience a deeper feeling of disgrace. ![]()
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